The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-12-23
state Vows.

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ST. Martin has a new militia com
pany.
Tho rivors in Louisiana are AZ On
a rise.
Lincoln parish voted no license on
the liquor question.
A ST. Landry justice takes mallard
ducks in lien Of fines.
The strike and tho consequences
flowing from it nearly killed business
in Houma,
J. Il. Kent, Of Coushatta, was kill
ed last week BY being thrown from
his wagon,
Two boys we're run over by the
fro engine in New iberia last We'd
nesday week,
Np send 100000 barrels Of apples
ear fo foreign nations, and
Won islla any naa u return, either
Qpelos aals a skating rink and
an ofgAa M Hatiop 10
tho supllg of iagsabie young
men,
Sam Jones cut ia, Patterson to
death at Riverside, near Donaldson
vile, last week, Whisky, Both col
ored,
Conductor John Williams, whose
deplorable death from being rnn over
BY train Is reported from Ffanklin,
was well and favorably known,
The a.year-old child Of p, T, Pom
der Of jackson, La, fell feet first In
70 a bored well forty-three feet deep
and was fshad out With pothooks un-
hprt.
Peter Leblaee, O brakeman on The
Morgan road, was killed BY tho cars
at Raceland Station last week, His
father was killed in the same manner
The week before
Many Of our planters are short in
coal mad have had to order supplies
from The city. There is none to be
had 10 the country So says tho
Thibodagx Sentinel.
a white man AZ DnberlY, op tho
Fioksburg, Shreveport a Pacific r. r.,
while digging II the ground near bis
residence, found eleven silver pieces,
dated 1905 and 1925. Ono is Spanish
and the others are American coins,
Sunday Of last week tie Israelites
Of Lafayette celebrated their Ham,
ahab. This celebration Il in qomem-
moration Of the time when King
Titus was driven ont Of their temple
and only ono lamp remained by
which they prayed,
st Martinville Messeageri Mr..
ErAmsds Champagne, deputy sheriff,
ggas conducting two prisoners from
Breaux Bridge hera, last Monday,
and when bio got ID certain place
near wood, the prisoners passed
under wire fence, took to the woods
and escaped.
Henry Q. Leblanc, 9 very worthy
young man IF Morgan City, who has
been runaipg on The freight trains as
brakeman, for some time past slipped
On d cotton bale on Monday morning
near Racelapd and fell under the
wheels Of the traia. Both legs were
completely eut oa The poor fellow
was taken 70 New Orleans bpt died
before reaching there,
IN response 70 p resolution Of ia'
qpiry, The commissioner Of agrieHl-
ture Tuesday sent . communication
70 the senate stating chat y patent
had been granted % Prof. stevenson,
Of La,, feF improvement IN tbe difIp.
sion process Of making sugar which
Improvement The Commissioners be-
liegea was discovered BY Prof sseY-
opsqp while III The government em-
ploy while making experiments with
The peoples money for the benefit of
tls people. He had protested ~ She
commissioner IF patents agaipst
granting tho petops but Yas Informed
that tho patent hsd been already
granted The cqmmissioaeE further
says he has suggested to lhe attorney
geperal tbat sait ~ instituted NJ per-
pesaallg enioip Stevenson from max
Ing pse Of The patent,